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This makes you want to take a shower... but is acceptable. Any method that works is ok in a huge emergency. Now, if this stays this way on the next day, without redoing it the right way - that says a lot about the future chances of the startup.
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The part about the VC continually distracting the startup with unrelated work says all you need to know about the startup's long-term chances. (If the startup needed that work to keep the lights on, it means the VC hadn't invested enough actual venture capital money...)
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the "huge emergency" is the WTF. At least rehearse your demo (with ample time to spare) if the client is that important.
Kudos to Aniket for resolving this.
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It would be still like that to this day, if the startup hadn't imploded two weeks later.
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It really depends on the startup. In this case, aside from money, it sounds like giving the kids a chance to gain some business experience was not a bad thing.
As for money, we don't know what the ownership structure was. Giving the startup some profitable ancillary work might be to let the founders maintain a decent stake - effectively the profits are cash they can invest alongside their labour.
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To me, TRWTF is an IT resource not having access to a Linux demo server. I understand that when you reach a certain size, you need processes and roles, but here we have a startup and image files are somehow protected? On a demo website?
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If he had access via sudo why couldn't he just rm the files in their protected folder??
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I just read this story this morning on Reddit. Y'all did a great job of editing. https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/wefdcb/you_want_to_change_images_five_minutes_before_the/
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"Access to sudo" doesn't necessarily mean "Access to root as sudo".
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Nor, now that I spend a few minutes thinking about it, does it mean "Access to the commands you need on sudo".
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10 years later, a new developer asks the senior developer "Why do we serve the images from port 8000?"
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Thanks!
For clarity, Aniket submitted it here as well. I didn't see it on Reddit. For obvious reasons, I don't grab stories from Reddit without talking to the poster first.
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I don't see how rehearsing the demo would have mattered--they didn't realize someone was going to be offended at how clothing is typically illustrated.
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"For the purposes of this demo we're working with a mockup of a standard clothing store since that'll allow us to demonstrate more of the features of the software. The children's-clothing version is obviously a bit more limited, but that means we can't demonstrate all of our features".
Talk about "fixing" things at completely the wrong end of the problem.
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Am I the only one worried that the arrangement is still working on Production seven years later?
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Next week on TDWTF: a major clothing store's web site loses all static content when a security consultant deleted an assumed redundant Python installation on the nginx server.
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Next week on TDWTF: a major clothing store's web site loses all static content when a security consultant deleted an assumed redundant Python installation on the nginx server.
Addendum 2022-08-11 04:35: Sorry for the double post Please delete the redundant duplicate
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i like that
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Addendum 2023-03-22 12:42: If you are faced with the fact that you do not know where to buy the best clothing brands, I hasten to help you. I myself once did not know where to buy usually and therefore sought solutions. Fortunately, they found them. Here I found In Europe, the most popular online marketplaces are https://inlower.com/brands and I bought just amazing brand-name clothes there, no fakes and so on. That's more important now than ever. I hope I was able to help you with that as well. Good luck.